Overview
With style and depth, Lorna Marshall leads the reader through the intricacies, ambiguities, and silences of !Kung beliefs. Her narrative, based on fieldwork among the Bushmen of the Kalahari in the early 1950s, brings into focus a way of life that appears to have existed for millennia. She presents the culture, beliefs, and spirituality of one of the last true hunting-and-gathering peoples by focusing on members of different bands as they reveal their own views. This account, with photography by John Marshall, presents a system of beliefs, one in which personified deities and unpersonifled supernatural forces (n!ow and n/um) interact with man and the natural world. The !Kung believe that this interaction accounts for much of the mystery of life and the vicissitudes of the good and evil that befall mankind. The book also depicts an egalitarian lifestyle based on sharing and group awareness, a lifestyle that has not survived intact the increasing integration of the Bushmen into the modern world. A companion volume to her 1976 work, The !Kung of Nyae Nyae, this book is published to mark the recent one-hundredth birthday of Lorna Marshall.
Full Product Details
Author: Lorna J. Marshall
Publisher: Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.
Imprint: Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.726kg
ISBN: 9780873659086
ISBN 10: 0873659082
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 24 January 2000
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Nyae Nyae !Kung is a book with an unusual history, written by a very unusual and indeed exceptional author. [It] will be very welcome not only by specialists but also by many lecturers in anthropology and neigh-bouring subjects. Marshall's vivid account underlines the practical difficulties of doing field research in the Nyae Nyae area half a century ago.--Anthropos
Nyae Nyae !Kung is a book with an unusual history, written by a very unusual and indeed exceptional author. [It] will be very welcome not only by specialists but also by many lecturers in anthropology and neigh-bouring subjects. Marshall's vivid account underlines the practical difficulties of doing field research in the Nyae Nyae area half a century ago.
Nyae Nyae !Kung is a book with an unusual history, written by a very unusual and indeed exceptional author. [It] will be very welcome not only by specialists but also by many lecturers in anthropology and neigh-bouring subjects. Marshall's vivid account underlines the practical difficulties of doing field research in the Nyae Nyae area half a century ago. * Anthropos *
